Clockwise: Michael Greenstein examines the bark of a Chinese elm in his collection in Los Altos; A liquidambar, also known as ...

Detectives in the Pacific Northwest are using new forensics technology to track down timber poachers and save old-growth ...

Landscape designer recommends trees that are able to withstand the increased heat, erratic weather and shifting precipitation ...

Among the oaks, white, red and bur oak all stand tall as ecological heavyweights. Their acorns feed wildlife, their canopies ...

Nature lovers need to go no further than the canopied campus of SUNY New Paltz to enjoy a rich variety of tree canopies, trunks, branches and blossoms getting ready to burst. There is a 1.5-mile ...

Prairie and savanna prescribed fires can be good trouble if they’re carefully timed and controlled. Their purpose is to help ...

Dense bark withstands fire and holds more moisture ... Logging could threaten habitats for endangered species in the ...

To encourage children to plant and care for one tree is a hand-off of a little responsibility, a gesture of hope. It is a ...

Spring and summer are considered “the no-pruning season” for oak trees, to help stop the spread of oak wilt disease.

Every fall for years, Deborah McCullough and her husband fished salmon from Western Michigan’s Betsie River. “It’s a little river, and it was shaded, and you knew there was going to be big salmon in ...

Marie urges residents to refrain from pruning oak trees during the no-pruning season, which runs from now until November. Pruning or otherwise damaging oak trees during this time makes them especially ...